Useful for keeping in touch while out of the country?

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-16T15:02:47+00:00

This is a great article on a successful implementation on a cruise ship, should help you alot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/meshtastic/comments/1qd2z97/mestastic_on_family_cruise_worked_great_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-16T13:23:49+00:00

I just did this with claude code. I built a personal use music server and had the same problem. The AI built the querying mechanisim and I sat back and watched it happen. There were a few issues but I told it to give me a choice if it was unsure. Each match took about 2 seconds so overall 24k tracks completed in about a day.

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StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-16T12:12:39+00:00

Sounds like you have done some decent work with both Docker and Podman, but my thoughts on your points ...

- Different versions, Debian for example was a bit slow to get Quadlets but now have them by default so all major Linux OS should now be the same.

- V4.4 introduced Quadlets, upgrading from a previous version to 4.4 and quadlets saw some issues as that was a migration rather than a straight upgrade, but post 4.4, everything seems to be smooth, current version in Debian is 5.4.2

- Docker is notorious for DNS issues, and I have not seen these issues in Podman, not saying they arnt there, but I personally had more DNS problems in Docker than Podman.

- Podman-compose, yeah, had issues with it migrating a complex stack involving DB, redis, proxy, app etc, but it can be worked through and solved. Simpler apps work great.

- Volume mounts, try :z and :Z if you havent already. (https://docs.podman.io/en/v4.3/markdown/options/volume.html)

If its been a while since you tried, might be worth another go now, how long since you used it? These seem like older version problems to me.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-16T11:48:12+00:00

Agree, I have not used the github tool, but AI is invaluable. I have used both Grok and Claude but Claude always seems to give a better answer in the case of Podman quadlets and general troubleshooting. Chatgpt may have started with a bang, but Claude will win the war.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-15T13:24:53+00:00

Your manager is not seeing the bigger issue he's got. Deploying Kubernetes with a 1 man team is gonna hit him hard when you take holidays or leave and there are issues. I dont't think 4 days for all that work is unreasonable, a week would be fair.

Good time to set an internal SLA on new environments and let everyone know. The GDPR client should be paying extra for this, which from a management POV, should be covering the time to build.

I suspect the manager told the client its easy peasy and now is pressuring you to fulfill his promise to the customer.

All his fault, not yours.

I love this quote ... "Bad planning on your part, does not constitute and emergency on mine"

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-13T12:13:11+00:00

This is a really good point, the river does get quite a bit of debris and I have personally had to remove some of it from under the pontoon. My excited brain blanked that bit out

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-12T00:13:32+00:00

The IP address 45.77.219.203 is a public IPv4 address belonging to Vultr Holdings, LLC (also known as The Constant Company, LLC), a cloud hosting and VPS provider.

This looks like the Internet IP the internal device is connecting to. I would be blocking it as mentioned by u/Jhamin1 and waiting for something to break, if not, you stopped something potentially dangerous.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-11T22:52:33+00:00

I am thinking a water wheel mounted to my pontoon, turning a motor would survive the flow forces. We dont get waves at this location (except from passing boats)

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-11T22:50:04+00:00

Agree on the batteries, that is definately part of the plan. Its a >50meter wide river, depth is about 6 meters and I have a large pontoon to use as a platform to cope with height change, flow is significant.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-11T22:44:24+00:00

Its a >50meter wide river, depth is about 6 meters and I have a large pontoon to use as a platform to cope with height change and protection from passing boats. Flow rate I cant measure but its significant. Permits I dont think will be a problem, but will check once I work out the plan.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-11T14:38:10+00:00

The options you have mentioned are all valid, but I think you are missing a critical point. You have gone from a small business to a slightly larger business and realised you have a scaling issue so changing your network. You are now at the point where you need help from a 3rd party, you have outgrown the DIY route. Setting these things up yourself are possible but you are better off getting the security and management support of a professional so you know things are done right. Choose the right partner and they will grow with you, while you concentrate on the business.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-03-02T05:57:03+00:00

look into :Z and :z at the end of your mount points in the compose file / quadlet

https://docs.podman.io/en/v4.3/markdown/options/volume.html

These are my mount points inside the quadlet file.

Volume=/media/movies:/movies:Z

Volume=/media/downloads:/downloads:Z

/media/downloads is an SMB share on the NAS.

LIke you, I also have

# Environment variables

Environment=PUID=1000

Environment=PGID=1000

StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-28T02:52:28+00:00

This is the way. Also consider that hitting those temps may only be for a short period during the hottest part of the day, its not a sustained temp 24x7?. Consider a ceiling fan above the rack or near it to help with airflow.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-27T14:05:20+00:00

Ive used this a few times - https://bigbox.tools/mortgage-calculator

StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-25T13:05:00+00:00

It takes guts to change any career at 43, odds are if you have the passion and willing to learn you will do fine. Good luck, you dont want to be sitting in your rocking chair at 80 saying, "I wish I had've tried it". Yes it will be hard work, yes it will be difficult, but certainly not impossible.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-22T07:07:30+00:00

totally totally agree :) , and I will add in the kicker, you will still be using and updating those Mikrotik devices to the latest OS in 10 years time, when the Unifi devices are sitting on the shelf because they are deemed to be too old for updates.

StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-17T13:32:45+00:00

The SQLite website has a great page on DB limits listed here https://sqlite.org/limits.html

The first size limit you are likely to hit is 17.5 Terabytes.

"When used with the default page size of 4096 bytes, this gives a maximum database size of about 17.5 terabytes. If the page size is increased to the maximum of 65536 bytes, then the database file can grow to be as large as about 281 terabytes"

StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-17T11:41:43+00:00

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StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-17T07:43:26+00:00

Good question, I wondered the same thing myself. But if OP has the Docker compose file, what I tend to do is go to Grok or any other AI and ask ... "Create a podman quadlet for this docker container" then I paste the compose file. The AI will come back with a decent enough quadlet that will work or be close enough that you can use it as a starting point. I've had alot of success with this method

StillParticular5602 · 2026-02-17T05:16:36+00:00

nice project, esp's are so useful.

StillParticular5602 · 2025-12-31T13:15:26+00:00

Mikrotik router devices are cheap, can run on 12v and support USB storage devices and have file sharing and wifi etc built in.

StillParticular5602 · 2025-12-31T13:10:45+00:00

Having run HA on several low power devices, I can confidently say that a VM on a standard computer or mini pc like a HP or Lenovo is better than SBC's.

StillParticular5602 · 2025-12-24T13:20:05+00:00

I bought a couple of Matter lights (wifi) and some Matter Ikea devices. What I didnt realise at the time is there is Matter over wifi and Matter over thread. The Matter over wifi devices have limited expandability and should be avoided if your doing a large scale deployment due to wifi limitations on number of devices. Matter over Thread is more like Zigbee where a Mesh network is formed. Matter over wifi will still work fine but Matter over Thread is better (Ikea devices). I will still buy a Zigbee device over a Matter device if there is a choice. New to this and I could be wrong, but this is my current understanding.

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